Crammed in at home and wrote my data analysis for more than 12 hours yesterday! Crazy longest hours I’ve spent on desk work. The more I analyse all the data that I took (that costed me almost 5 grand!), the more I discover on other stuff to check and detailed out.
The findings drove me wild! I can’t wait to finish them all and do a proper write up. In my data analysis part, I have included:
- Descriptive analysis of each item
- Analysis per construct for each cluster/division
- TRI, EA analysis for Sabah and each cluster
- Demographic profile
- Knowledge and awareness profiles
- PLS-SEM analysis – measurement, structural and median analysis
I was stuck for a bit due to questions regarding analysing reflective formative higher order construct. After almost a week researching, turned out I couldn’t do it because of defect in questionnaire design. I couldn’t do redundancy analysis / convergence test cause there’s no global item or formative response to compare my data against. It’s also refreshing to know that I wasn’t alone. Some authors skip it altogether, but I couldn’t find very good references on this, so I decided to do direct reflective lower order analysis instead. After I have made that decision, things are just flowing moving forward. Thank God, like finally! Should I have another opportunity to conduct this kind of studies, I will carefully design my instrument.
Earlier on, I was stuck at detailing my sampling method. If I am looking for Sabah agriculture demography, I almost didn’t have enough numbers. A week over reading and researching, I have settled on how to structure my writeup and finalise my data for analysis accordingly with the cluster portion.
At this stage, I can see clearly now the stuff I learn theoretically. All the research process that I’m going through is so important and have to be conducted ethically for it to be meaningful. There’s a certain level of responsibility involved when I think of who am I delivering my research reports for. After checking out the preliminary results, I have just found a new drive to finish my thesis the soonest I can. It’s too important for others to see especially the policy makers. One week to go, I will finish it on time! May Allah ease.